Just plain angry

June 9, 2026 by

I’m angry. I’ve been angry for quite awhile
But it’s not an emotion I usually allow myself.
So
I thought I was depressed, just overwhelmed.
But I was deceiving myself

I’m stopping myself from living fully
No-one else is
Those deep judgements of myself
Are dominating again

“I’m not enough
I don’t belong
I’m damaged goods”

Only this time, maybe
I can stop, learn to see differently
Create a new story I tell myself

Love myself as I am

The journey inward to the truth of who I am continues. For that I am grateful.

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Emergence

June 15, 2025 by

I’m waiting
The space
Immobilizes

I want to hold still
Stand in grass
Listen to birds

The “to-do” list gets longer
I step around it
What calls me

Silence

I don’t want to do
I walk alone
Talk with a friend

That’s enough

I’m nothing
I’m everything
Seeking presence

Confused
Immobilized
Crazy? Perhaps

The journey of awakening, of seeking to be present, to know God, continues to challenge me. But I’m seeing more, not just about where it all started but how I keep the old beliefs/stories alive today. That is a blessing but also pretty humbling. LOL!

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My Birthday

February 22, 2025 by

I was held…
caring wishes, cards
a lunch
a garden solar lantern
expressions of appreciation
Our oneness, my belonging

May I remember
reach out, connect
It’s ok to be awkward
OK to be me

It’s not OK to stay separate out of
fear and shame.
Strong back, open heart

Welcome my friends,
those I know and
those to come

Welcome

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Picture from Tiffany Shlain, Declaration of Interdependence

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Ode to Love

February 13, 2025 by

What’s love got to do with it?
Old Tina asked
You know,

when I‘m
running my hand down
your soft back, relaxing, sighing
while you gently purr.

when I‘m
crying, reading
about someone
hurt, attacked, Dehumanized…

when I‘m
looking at the sky, jaw dropped
at the everyday awesomeness
of changing clouds and sun

when I‘m
feeling Joyful at seeing
a crown of purple violets
growing in the middle of the first snow

when I‘m
showing up and
holding the space
for you to do the same

What’s love got to do with it?
Everything!

To love!
Our connection
Our Life

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The Closing of a Year

December 29, 2024 by

It’s the end of the year. Here are some words of wisdom I’m taking with me.

Love is for giving.
Forgiving is Love.

All systems that isolate and separate are incomplete and misleading.

Dignity is the capacity to feel my inherent value simply because I exist. Dignity is the seat of agency, of choice.

To be resilient is to be engaged, creative, adaptive and relational.

If a man/woman has shown you who he/she is, why would you expect/want him/her to change? Let them be.

The most important law of the Universe is the law of love because it about relationship. Our Universe is innately related, every part to every other part, and to the whole.
…The Breath of the Universe, Dr.Jude Carrivan

Every act/thought has a consequence to the whole.
I need to be responsible for the energy I bring into a space.

Listen for what is mine to do….and do it.

In Joy Life!

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SINGLE

June 6, 2023 by

A simple word, yet
It had escaped me
I’m not alone, not a widow
I’m single!

Freeing in a way I don’t understand
Not wounded, not left behind
But standing as one, as ONE
Connecting deeply to myself

Connecting to a bigger whole
I’m free to start again with
New interests, friends…
As I am now…single.

In conversation with my friend Lee Ann, she said something. She didn’t see me alone, I was single. And something happened. I could feel an internal shift. I felt grounded.
I was myself again, rooted into the earth, free to blossom.

It’s crazy I know! But I’m going with the feeling, trusting this shift is real. Another stage in life, a continuation of this incredible journey. Joseph is still with me, laughing I suspect and cheering me on. Love never stops even as life changes. And maybe nothing changes but me.

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Shift!

November 1, 2022 by

When your heart breaks open again,
Do you go to hate?
Or, do you surrender?
When there’s one more negative headline, a shooting, a rant,
Does despair start filling you? Do you drown? Or,
Can you shift and reach out,
letting the Light fill you.

When the negativity, the violence, the anger of others overwhelms you, what do you do? Many stop reading/listening to the news and social media. Others move into a “fighting back” mode. Some let fear drive them into withdrawing from life because nothing seems to matter, nothing is safe anymore.

I’m learning to use another option. Suzanne Giesemann* talks about learning to “Shift.” When I start focusing on the negative, or when despair or fear arises, I notice, and tell myself “Shift!”. I can then change my point of view from “this is awful” to “isn’t that interesting?” I then ask my higher self (God, my guardian angel, my guides) “What is the best reaction to this situation?” I breath, focus on my heart and just listen. Sometimes I get a response right away, other times I just get the peace of shifting into the Light.

Other times when I say to myself “Shift!” I take some deep breaths. I smile. And, I consciously choose to let the Light /Divine grace and God’s Love flow through me. I consciously choose to remember that I AM one with Mother/Father God. I am not alone.

Both of these work. Lately I’ve found many opportunities to use them.
Sometimes I have to say “Shift” to myself 40 x a day LOL! Yet, I know with practice, I’ll live there.

May we all live in gratitude, peace and love. Choose to enjoy this moment of Life. It’s a gift we are given.

*https://suzannegiesemann.com/ or https://stream.humanitysteam.org/cosmic-forces-shaping-a-whole-new-future

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The Gift

May 26, 2021 by 
The curtains part 
And, for a moment,
I get to fly
To feel the sun
Touch another's face
Know the precious freedom
of being here

(Poem written in response to the prompt “curtains,” by Kathy Jacobs.)

I’ve been fascinated with the emerging cicadas this week. At first, when I saw only one, started to wonder if it was lonely. Then slowly there were more, and finally lots more. I knew soon it would be cacophony of sound and then, after mating they would die.

There more I contemplated what was happening, it seemed they were here to mirror our own journey. The limitations and the possibilities. With cicadas, I can step back and see the whole story. So it is with reverence I think I’ll be writing more about cicadas.

In the meantime, can you find your own mirror in nature…something you can see the cycle of? Can you consider learning from that which we declare less than us?

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Gratitude

November 26, 2020 by

Life gives us challenges and gifts
Sometimes in the same package
Teaching us what’s important
Showing us who we are
The Life we didn’t plan
I’m thankful.

Today is Thanksgiving, a day to speak out loud all that I’ve been blessed with.
As I look back, look around, I know my life has been guided by a Wisdom greater than my own. I’m more at peace, happier, and more present than I ever thought possible. Through the hard times and the many, many, many times I was less than perfect, I know I was guided.

I’ve come to believe there is a Divine plan. I’ve had help from so many teachers and friends. There were all those serendipitous interactions that unexpectedly gave me what I needed or that steered me in a certain direction I could have missed.

May I continue to let go of what no longer serves me, and more importantly, what was never true to begin with. May I let go of my investment in myself, and rest in the awareness of our interdependence and oneness (in God, the Divine, Jesus, Love….).

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

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What’s in a sign?

July 28, 2020 by

It’s only a sign!
Why put it out?
Who will even see it
in my cul-de-sac?

I don’t want to forget…
get sidetracked by extremism.

It’s only a sign!
it won’t save lives
it won’t change policy
it won’t heal wounds

But it is a truth…
I don’t want to forget.

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